Indiana's Redistricting Surrender Illustrates Why Primaries Matter
... the Hoosier State’s Republican-controlled Senate shot down efforts to pass a new congressional map seeking to boost their party’s share of seats heading into the 2026 midterms...
Despite holding a supermajority in the upper chamber, 21 of the Senate’s 40 Republican senators joined Democrats in defeating the proposed map (31-19)...
While Democrats with razor-thin margins in blue states like Virginia are willing to seemingly violate the law to pass gerrymandered maps in their party’s favor, fake red states like Indiana can’t even be bothered to legally use their supermajorities to do the same...
... Indiana’s bungled redistricting gambit underscores an important feature of the electoral system that many GOP voters have long ignored: the primary process...
The entire reason feckless Republicans believe they can continue to get away with the type of betrayal exemplified in the Hoosier State is that they don’t fear electoral accountability from the GOP base...
It’s a nationwide problem witnessed at every level of government, in which gutless RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) routinely stab their base in the back but face no repercussions at the ballot box...
The only way this can happen is if Republican voters rediscover what it means to be a self-governing people...
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